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So what’s the deal with will power? Sometimes you feel locked in; sometimes the Dairy Queen staff know your first name. Is the presence of will power a character trait, or can it in fact be developed?

Psychologists call this the negativity bias. We are trained to scout for and fixate on threat. Why? Because we are wired to survive, and the world is filled with things that can kill us.

‘The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.’- Mark Twain

Nothing is more expensive than being unhealthy; although eating healthy could be a close second.

Imagine that all these pathways are written in Chalk. Eventually injury, or jammed joints, or poor neural mapping (sensory motor amnesia) smudge the Chalk. The movement path, all things considered, isn’t clear; You lose full range of motion in your shoulder, for example, or your hips fire but can’t relax.  This is basically why we are tight; Or weak; Or can’t perform certain movements. Your signal is imperfect, or non existent. You’ve smudged the Chalk, hence you can’t move properly.

The one thing, above all, is experience. In the gym, as in life, Experience matters. Intelligence and book smarts are essential, but it is chiefly experience that solves problems quickly.